My story begins at the University of Pittsburgh where I did my medical school and radiology residency training. There I was fortunate to get in on the ground floor of MRI just as it began to flourish in 1985. That year I developed a mysterious pain in my left shoulder which was unrelieved by arthroscopic surgery. This experience inspired me to pursue research in MRI of the shoulder at Thomas Jefferson University after doing a musculoskeletal fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania, eventually leading to the first study of MRI in professional baseball players with the Philadelphia Phillies.

After this very conventional beginning, I was unexpectedly launched into a multifaceted adventure toward holistic healing in 1987 when I joined the national MRI safety committee to address concerns about claustrophobic patients and the health effects of electromagnetic fields. The safety issues led me to become interested in hypnosis and acupuncture, taking my first hypnosis training in 1990.

In 1993, I became section head of musculoskeletal radiology at Duke University Medical Center. I co-founded Duke Integrative Medicine in 1998 and took the UCLA Acupuncture Course for Physicians. I left full-time radiology and began to practice acupuncture along with hypnosis at a variety of clinics at Duke. In 2002, I was introduced to EFT
(Emotional Freedom Techniques), the perfect combination of my hypnosis and acupuncture training. After 18 years, my chronic left shoulder impingement pain finally resolved when I got divorced and realized it was related to repressed anger.

In 2004, I was guided to leave Duke and set up Healing Imager, LLC, to offer teleradiology and coaching services. In 2006 I developed a right frozen shoulder which healed in only 6 months rather than a couple years using EFT and past-life therapy. I became a Certified Energy Health Practitioner through the Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology in 2010 and was certified in hypnosis by the American Society of Clinical Hypnosis in 2011.

After telling stories about all these healing adventures for many years, I was inspired to publish my 1st book Let Magic Happen: Adventures in Healing with a Holistic Radiologist in 2012. Health-related dreams became a focus in 2015 inspiring me to publish a research paper on women who had warning dreams about their breast cancers before diagnosis. My 2nd book Dreams That Can Save Your Life was published in 2018.

I completed Yes Code coaching certification with my original EFT teacher Carol Look in 2019 and retired from teleradiology to offer online Let Magic Happen coaching for clients. In October 2021, I retired from my academic position at Duke to do full time coaching for clients with pain and inflammatory conditions, while continuing to teach an annual Tapping into Health course for Duke Integrative Medicine until 2025.

In 2019, I taught my first online workshop on Rapid Healing for Frozen Shoulder and started a Facebook group on Frozen Shoulder Healing that is now the largest in the world with 46 K members growing at a rate of 150 per day. After answering the same questions as the administrator/moderator for 6 years, I finally published my 3rd book Frozen
Shoulder Healing: Diagnostic Methods and Treatment Options at the request of group members.

My CV is linked here.